Move School Board Elections On-Cycle to Restore Local Control. Sketching a New Conservative Education Agenda

Autor/in	Eden, Max
Institution	American Enterprise Institute (AEI)
Titel	Move School Board Elections On-Cycle to Restore Local Control. Sketching a New Conservative Education Agenda
Quelle	(2021), (7 Seiten) PDF als Volltext kostenfreie Datei Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Monographie
Schlagwörter	Elections; Boards of Education; Political Attitudes; Voting; School Districts; Local Government; Public Education; Citizen Participation; Educational Policy; Decision Making; Scheduling; Political Candidates; Politics of Education; Kindergarten; Elementary Secondary Education + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Election; Wahl; Ausschuss; Political attitude; Politische Einstellung; Abstimmung; School district; Schulbezirk; Gemeindeverwaltung; Öffentliche Erziehung; 'Citizen participation; Citizens'' participation'; Bürgerbeteiligung; Politics of education; Bildungspolitik; Decision-making; Entscheidungsfindung; Disposition; Educational policy
Abstract	In order to have a public education system that caters to the cultural, policy, and pedagogical preferences of communities, more citizens need to participate in local school board elections. This report discusses why school board elections should be moved on cycle (i.e., held on the first Tuesday after the first Monday in November of an even year). Off-cycle school board elections deeply depress voter turnout and minimize genuine "local control" in public education. When school board elections are held on cycle, school board members become more likely to hold the political and policy beliefs of their constituents. Allowing school board candidates to display partisan affiliation would equip voters to make an informed choice in an era of increasingly diverging values and priorities for schools. (ERIC).
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Erfasst von	ERIC (Education Resources Information Center), Washington, DC
Update	2024/1/01